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National Gardening	Timing The Potato Planting Potatoes can be planted very early in the season -- almost as soon as the frost is out of the ground and you're able to work the soil. In the North, you can plant your first crop of early maturing potatoes in April, usually six to eight weeks before the last frost.
National Gardening Barbara Pleasant	Caladiums Colorful tropical foliage stars in garden beds and indoors.
National Gardening Diane Bilderback	Multiplying Dahlias One tuber can give you 5 or 6 blooming plants this year.
National Gardening	Harvesting Sweet Potatoes With sweet potato plants the vines don't die and signal harvesttime the way white potato vines do. This article tells you the best time to harvest, how to cure your sweet potatos and how to store them.
National Gardening Kathryn Khosla	Growing Leeks In mild-winter regions, sow leek seeds in July, then harvest the following spring.
National Gardening Alice Knight	Winter Heaths Early fall is prime time to plant these hardy long-blooming evergreens.
National Gardening Diane Bilderback	All About Dahlias These easy-to-grow plants produce prolific flowers in the summer and the fall.
National Gardening	Tomato Problems Some problems with tomatoes are not caused by insects or diseases. Here are a few common problems.
National Gardening Lynn Ocone	Heucheras: Versatile, Colorful Natives Heuchera plants have different uses in different places.
National Gardening	Harvesting Potatoes After all your work of planting and caring for your potato plants, here's how to get the most from your harvest.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Set Your Garden Aglow For a number of years plant breeders have been introducing yellow- or light green-leafed varieties of popular shrubs. The goal has been to select plants with attractive foliage that complements the flowers.
Seasoned Cooking November 2005 J. Sinclair	Sweet Potatoes Those that think that sweet potatoes are to be saved for a sweet casserole served on Thanksgiving and not otherwise are really missing out!... Recipe: Turkey and Sweet Potato Salad...
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Colorful Grasses For winter color in gardens of the desert Southwest, gardeners need look no further than the ornamental native grasses...
National Gardening Vicky Congdon	Smoke Bush Cotinus, or smoke bush, can be grown across the United States and is available in several varieties. Buying, planting and growing suggestions are offered.
National Gardening	Fall Garden Cleanup Q and A Here are some questions we've received about fall cleanup in the garden, along with the answers given by our regional horticulture staff.
National Gardening Jack Ruttle	All-American Daylilies No other perennial gives as much for so little
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National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	New Crapemyrtles Crapemyrtles (Lagerstroemia) are often called the "lilacs of the south." They grace many homes with beautiful flowers in midsummer when few other shrubs are blooming. Although considered a southern plant, new varieties of crapemyrtle have proven hardy in colder climates.
National Gardening	Caring for Potatoes Caring for potatoes requires proper watering, cultivating and hilling.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Grow Space-Saving Tomatoes If you only have a small garden, there are varieties of tomatoes that will fit perfectly into the space.
National Gardening Warren Schultz	Sweeter Sweet Corn Sugary, enhanced varieties stay sweet longer on the stalk and in the kitchen.
National Gardening	Seed Potatoes Small seed potatoes can be planted whole, but larger ones should first be cut into pieces with at least one eye or recessed dormant bud.
National Gardening June 2000 Kris Wetherbee	Corn of Many Colors For an exciting range of colors and tastes, plant gourmet popcorn this spring
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Best Winter Annuals For gardeners in the South, fall is the time to switch gears. While northern gardeners are pulling out plants in preparation for freezing temperatures, southern gardeners can plant pansies, violas, and other hardy annuals to provide color from winter to early spring.
National Gardening Veronica Lorson Fowler	Amazing Annual Vines These speedy climbers offer old-fashioned charm and quick landscape solutions
National Gardening	Preventing Rose Diseases It's no surprise that roses are among the most popular ornamental garden plants: they're beautiful, fragrant, and easy to grow in most climates.
National Gardening Robert Kouric	Herbes de Provence How to grow and make this gourmet seasoning
National Gardening Suzanne DeJohn	Top 10 Things to Do with Fall Leaves Fall leaves are like a big load of free organic fertilizer strewn about your yard. If those nutrients were bagged and sold, you'd pay money for them. In your yard, they're free -- except for the labor of gathering them
This Old House Sallie Brady	Tread On Me Low-growing, tough-underfoot plants soften the edges of garden paths and patios.
National Gardening Skip Richter	Turn Leaves into Gold These golden leaves can be turned into "black gold" for the garden. They make great soil-enriching compost or a protective mulch.
National Gardening Ben Watson	Veteran Vegetables While you're planting some of the newest vegetables, don't forget to leave some room for these classics.
National Gardening June 2000 Beth Marie Renaud	Tomatoes in a Can Growing full-size tomatoes in containers saves space and protects plants from disease
National Gardening	Fall Potato Planting In the South good seed potatoes may not be available for fall planting. Your best bet is to provide your own, even though there's some risk of planting diseased potatoes.
National Gardening	Sweet Corn Essentials Tips on planting, growing, and harvesting sweet corn.
National Gardening Carolyn Male	Tomato Diseases Forewarned is forearmed: how to read your tomato leaves.
National Gardening Ben Watson	Hybrid or Open Pollinated Is one type of vegetable seed better than another?
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	When Good Tomatoes Go Bad Here's a list of eight of the most common tomato fruit problems not caused by insect or disease.
This Old House C. J. Hughes	Splendor in the Grass With showy plumes and leaves that rustle and sway, ornamental grasses can add surprising texture to your yard. Also, here is a step by step guide to split an overgrown grass plant.
Science News December 22, 2007 Janet Raloff	Food for Thought: It's Spud Time The United Nations wants more people to appreciate the potato's potential to fight world hunger.
National Gardening David Cavagnaro	Amaranths: Ancient and Modern Heirloom curiosities or New Age food plants?
Seasoned Cooking October 2005 Philip R. Gantt	Polynesian Chicken A sweet little chicken dish made with pineapple and sweet potatoes.
Chemistry World December 4, 2012 Emma Stoye	Low acrylamide potato on the horizon During cooking, different varieties of potatoes can produce widely varying levels of the carcinogen acrylamide. Researchers investigated the formation of the chemical in nine different potato varieties.
National Gardening Jack Ruttle	Weird Tomatoes Heirloom tomatoes offer diverse characteristics and are easy to grow. Five top heirlooms are suggested.
Garden Gate	More Unusual Potatoes There are all kinds of unusual, gourmet potatoes becoming available these days. Exotic varieties that could only be obtained by the fanciest restaurants are now showing up in the local food stores right next to their more common cousins. And you can grow these spuds in your home garden.
This Old House March 27, 2001 Lynn Ocone	Growing Perfect Tomatoes Treat yourself to one of the true pleasures of summer: your own homegrown tomatoes fresh from the vine...